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| | | ... prices have fallen sharply following recent gains after figures showed a much larger-than-expected increase in crude inventories in top global consumer the United States. BHP Billiton was 27 cents higher at $35.37, Rio Tinto was 49 cents higher at $66.99 ... |
| | | | ... higher index reading. There's action behind this as evidenced by the US Commerce Department's report that business inventories increased by a higher-than-expected 0.7% in January - the largest since October. Increased inventories provide a positive contribution ... |
| | | | ... estimated 2.5%. Bad headline but good prospects. This is because the reduced growth estimate was due to a bigger drag from inventories. The re-estimation showed inventories subtracted 1.6 percentage points from third quarter growth, up from the initial ... |
| | | | ... fertiliser. Oil gained nearly four per cent to move back above $100 a barrel, due in part to a Dept of Energy report that inventories of crude oil did not rise last week as expected. Energy stocks like Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp rose nearly two ... |
| | | | ... were substantially lower, too, after crude oil futures fell 4.9 per cent, below $US100 a barrel because crude oil inventories in the US have grown much more than expected amid sliding demand. Santos had retreated 42 cents, or 2.86 per cent, at $14.24 ... |
| | | | ... triggered a five-minute halt of all energy trading on Nymex -- the first in more than two years. Funny that because US inventories have been rising since the start of the year and oil prices kept on rising. And only now investors noticed? What did we ... |
| | | | ... cure for high oil prices is high oil prices" ? Oil prices were also hurt by a Goldman Sachs report citing that high inventories and spare production capacity would bring Brent oil down to US$105 a barrel. Brent oil -- as different from West Texas Intermediate ... |
| | | | ... late afternoon trade. However, New York crude sank after news of a larger-than-expected jump in American crude oil inventories. Amsterdam ended off 0.04 per cent, Lisbon dipped 0.08 per cent, Madrid shed 0.09 per cent, Brussels slipped 0.28 per cent ... |
| | | | ... December quarter, seasonally adjusted, and were up 14.7 per cent over the year, official figures show. Estimated business inventories, in seasonally adjusted chain volume terms, rose 0.7 per cent in the December quarter after falling 0.9 per cent in ... |
| | | | ... cents, or 2.37 per cent, at $1.295 after reporting a first half loss of $12.7 million with a $215 million provision on inventories. In banking, NAB was down 40 cents at $25.74, Westpac fell 32 cents to $23.75, Commonwealth Bank was 66 cents lower at ... |
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